Newcastle United are reported to be interested in 20-year-old Cape Verde defender Pecks, who has also attracted the interest of both Manchester City and Tottenham.
Cape Verdi born Pecks – looks older than 20 – he must worry a lot
The six-foot defender broke into the first team of Portuguese side Gil Vicente only last season, and his powerful and skillful play has attracted some of the top Premier League sides to watch him play in the Portuguese League.
Pecks has played only 10 times for Gil Vicente so far, and he is listed at around £500K by transfermarkt.com, which is within the budget of Newcastle, but that fee doesn’t seem to be very accurate – read on.
But we’ll not have much chance of signing this lad if Manchester City and Tottenham are really interested in him, and City are said to already be in the driver’s seat to get the Cape Verdi born youngster.
Cape Verdi is off the west coast of Africa, directly west of Senegal capital Dakar.
The right footed center-back has already played for his country of birth, and was in the Cape Verde squad in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year.
But if the news that the Gil Vicente President has already slapped an £8M fee on his head, then Newcastle will exit right – and quickly too.
Gil Vicente President Antonio Fiusa had this to say:
“The player has a contract until 2017 and we will not sell for a low price.”
The report is that Manchester City will move in with a £5M offer for Pecks, after they have already watched the 20 year-old several times already this season.
Why is that we think Newcastle will have no chance of signing this player?
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157 comments so far
solano
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Comment #81TDS…can you just remind this blog (with a very good archive of posts, I may say) WHEN and WHY you started supporting NUFC?
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Comment #82daztoon
Be realistic – KK was only ever really successful at Newcastle. Sure, he got Fulham promoted by spending Al-Fayed’s money but he didn’t do much other than that.
I hardly think my blood has anything to do with it. Sure, you could argue that it makes you more passionate because you were born into it, but I actually had the choice to support NUFC or to be a glory hunter and support a club that was winning trophies. My family is split between Liverpool, Man Utd and Man City. Just think how many times I could have celebrated a trophy if I’d picked one of those clubs…
Shearer has done nothing as a manager and he was never going to work with Ashley either. He doesn’t have the humility or the subtlety to work in that kind of environment. I’d love to see him back as manager one day though if he proves himself in management, it would be wonderful to have another passionate fan in charge.
But my subtlety argument goes for comments in public too. Barton is by far the worst but ex-players who love to club need to be a little more political in their comments Some are and some aren’t. Shearer in his status as the biggest legend of modern times and being on the TV so often as a pundit should know his words carry more weight than others. He might be right in what he thinks but it’s not always the right thing for the club to say it.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Comment #83Toonking
No one is talking about Dalglish so maybe stick to the topic and since when did I even mention Shearer would make a good manager.
Try reading what is written before replying with total tripe
VanToonMan
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Comment #84Cisse HAS to play against Leeds and HAS to be on the bench at Goodison Park.
I’m sorry but do people forget his SHOCKING pass intended to go all the way back to defence when the ball was played into him, which gave them a throw deep in our half of the pitch and eventually led to a goal. We should have defended better subsequently but the fact is that from having the ball and being comfortable pressure was piled on us in an instant from that ludicrous pass.
Remy HAS to be up top at Everton…better movement, touch, skill and finishing. Cisse on the bench. Goofy will work hard on the left and Benny on the right. If Cabs is injured bring Tiote in as CDM.
I would also probably put Benny as the attacking midfielder of the central 3 and put Sissoko on the right just for Everton so he can protect Debuchy better against Baines and also Benny might be more potent centrall behind Remy
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Comment #85TDS, ciaran, others
Not everyone will agree with everything. If TDS wants to not get involved with change, or not the current groups, then leave him to it. He can do as he pleases as a fan of the club (which he is ciaran, otherwise he wouldn’t get so animated about this issue).
At the end of the day we all have the rights to our opinions, whether we are right or wrong, we all do what we think is best for the club. Everyone has their own ideas.
Lets try to keep it a sensible discussion and not resort to insulting people. If somebody doesn’t agree repeating yourself over and over won’t help either.
solano
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Comment #86TDS….it’s two simple questions I asked you!
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Comment #87solano
If you like…
Many of my family are Liverpool fans (I was even taken to some games as a kid) so I was told a lot about the Liverpool legends and even say old footage of them play (including Keegan) but I didn’t want to just be a glory hunter and I wasn’t from Liverpool.
I didn’t follow a club for years but I followed football avidly. Then when Keegan went to Newcastle, it grabbed me. The passion, the atmosphere and the excitement just pulled me in. I was 15 the season we got promoted and 16 by the time we were in the PL and I was a fan then. Keegan was my reason for being a fan and those next few years were just amazing.
I hardly think I’d be on this blog as a Newcastle fan unless I was passionate about the club.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Comment #88solano
Patience is a virtue my friend…
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Comment #89TS
I do feel like I’m repeating myself rather a lot…how many times have I said that I’d like to get involved with time4change and I’m interested in what they are doing?
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Comment #90Sage
I don’t care if he gets himself involved, or supports a campaign or even agrees with us doing it. The fact of the matter is that his constant defence of the owner, while ridiculing fans, and apportioning more blame and responsibility on club legends than is right or proper all points to the fact that he is not a fan of the growth, ambtion and success of this club, rather he is a fan of healthy balance sheets.
I’m sorry. I will never agree with anyone who conducts themselves like that, moreover I will never respect that point of view because it is an alien concept to fans of this club who want to see us run with ambition.
So, your concerns are noted but I am afraid they are falling on deaf ears.
cestriasteve
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Comment #91People should judge Collo and MYM partnership after the next 10 games, they havent even played 10 games together yet. I cant believe we are even discussing CB situation the problem of defending lies with the relationship with the mid field and Full Backs, if we want this 4-3-3 (at home) set up we need to keep playing it, give it a while if it doesnt work then change it.
Where is Lilongwe when you need advice!!
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Comment #92daztoon
The point about Dogleash is that he was an amazing player for Liverpool but frankly a dreadful manager. He was lucky the first time as he just inherited a great squad, but he should never have been reappointed. Keegan was different, he had to actually shape the squad the first time he was at NUFC, but that doesn’t change the fact that I don’t think he should have been reappointed either. Keegan’s achievements as a manager outstrip Dogleash’s in terms of benefiting the club for me.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Comment #93tinman 72
I think the reason the blog has turned itself into a 90-10 is so many of the the ones at the otherside of the argument have been repelled away by the ruddies.
I myself am a one who would love a better manager and owner to join but for now will accept pardew as the current manager as I know he has managed to get at least 1 decent finish he is treated live a slave who has no say and the manager merry go round has give enough signs that if he goes the replacement will be no better and with the owner I just think back to our chaos protesting at him last time as it resulted in relegation and I think that he has split the singing section up in the stadium because to make it harder for the shouting Ashley out.
the likes of bill son dannyo torq I think were just getting fed up of the way posts were.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Comment #94ToonDarnSarf
Why is not they have played in front of 50,000 toon supporters at home and are entitled to their opinion just as any supporter is.Maybe even when you have Toon legends giving their opinion it may make some fans actually wake up and see what is going on at our club.
I`m pretty sure Keegan would have these players playing football and even got the players Big Sam had playing a bit too.
Look at Howey, Keegan saw he wouldn`t make it as a striker and he probably would have left the club if hapless KK didn`t see the potential for a CB.
So NO KK wasn`t all about just buying big name players he developed them too.
SeanNufc87
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Comment #95Jesus h its warm on here today.
Ruddy dont you have somewhere to be mate?
Jail nice use of the word cretin because you opinion differs again.
Hes right that its both fans and ashleys fault for the breakdown, he made mistakes so people threatened his family… wonder why that bridge was burnt.
MA is as stubborn as he is wide, hes not going to sell because your feelings are hurt and are murmuring complaints, hes more likely to piss in your cornflakes for it.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Comment #96Anyway, I’m off for a bit, this stifling lack of ambition has infected this blog, debate is dead, the lunatics are running the asylum and the plant is playing victim.
Sorry times as a NUFC fan, but I suppose we should just be happy we’re in the PL. Ridiculous.
cestriasteve
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM
Comment #97Van Toon, that is a good idea
solano
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Comment #98Thankyou, my friend. Patience is most certainly a virtue. Unfortunately it has dwindled so much so that after 6 years it is a rare commodity in Newcastle.
However, I ask you to be patient with those who want progressive change when they express their total disillusionment in this regime and talk of hope for an ambitious future.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Comment #99Sean
You’re more than welcome to the blog, by all means piss in the wind by offering your opinions on here, for the fat amount of good it will do you. I will leave you, and whatever other happy clapper who wants to praise Ashley to rafters to it.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:11 PM
Comment #10093 toonking
Exactly the way that I’m thinking. For me it’s all about what’s best for the club not just ranting because it makes me feel better. I understand why some fans feel the need to do it but it doesn’t mean that it’s right.
I’d love to see a more ambitious owner and manager work in tandem to target the top 6 but we can’t always have what we want. And I’d rather we have what we have now rather than be where Blackburn or Wolves are.
toon kk
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Comment #101We all have the same thing in common and support NUFC, so people are going to have a moan when things aren’t going right, we’ll also prase when we’re doing better. But as long as MA owns the club we’ll be run on a budget which will have to be managed by a yes man and work with average players.
Its best not to expect to much but that doesn’t stop anyone wanting more from a big club struggling to compete with newly promoted clubs both financially and on the pitch.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Comment #102tinman
their is a post right their 83 by daztoon
who just picks the word daglish out of my whole post and ignores the similarity in that he is as much a legend to Liverpool as a play as he was a rubbish manager to Newcastle.
so shearer should not be any different.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Comment #103daztoon
I’m not saying KK couldn’t develop player. He had a fantastic skill of turning average players into really good team players. He was a fantastic manager at the time but times change. Football has moved on quite a lot and I just don’t think his methods work any more. It’s so much more tactical and based on stats than it ever was, KK always went on gut feel so much more.
In fact it’s a shame for KK that he wasn’t born a couple of decades earlier, he could have been another Clough.
solano
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:14 PM
Comment #104TDS…you’re better off sticking with the ‘do nothings’ and the ‘tinpot’ regime, I think 😉
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Comment #105solano
Those people who are so aggressive about wanting change would do well to listen to those of us who also want change but are able to see both sides of the argument. Nobody ever won a fight by refusing to understand or acknowledge their opponents position.
I hope time4change is run by people with more vision than Ciaran/Ruddy. Mike Ashley would have him for breakfast like a little yappy Chihuahua…
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Comment #106TDS
Yeh i have seen you say you would back time for change.
My opinion on it is that I think you have valid points just you give too much credit for the good ashley does and not enough critisim for the bad (just my opinion, neither better or worse than yours).
I also think that just because we have a huge fan base and had our moments in the PL era it gives us no divine right to be up around the top 4 as some seen to suggest. Sure we all want more but demanding more is sometimes a bit too much….we should have a better owner willing to be honest and follow through with the plans he/his minions set out instead of baiting the fans.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Comment #107solano
Well you saw my post on why I support this club I presume. That’s why I fight my corner on this blog.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Comment #108ToonDarnSarf
There was no point at all about Dalglish and he was that bad a manager he won the double as player manager in his first season.Weather he inherited a team or not he won the double.He also had one of the best wining percentage records while their over the likes of Shankly and Paisley.
Yes he was shite at the Toon because like Ashley he never shared the passion of the club always a Liverpool man.
Like i said i never said Shearer would make a good manager i said he was given eight games to save an already sinking ship,so can`t be judged as a manager.Give the man a couple of seasons somewhere and then he can be judged
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #109daztoon 83
you saying64 TDS consistant slag both shearer and keegan
well shearer would not be slagged as a bad player TDS was just stating he is not yet a decent manager and that was why i used Kenny daglish in mypost because he is slated for bad management with us but he like shearer was a great player.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Comment #110TS
The problem with the top 4 is that it’s very different to when it was when KK and SBR were there. Citeh and Chelski are artificially inflated and we can’t really compete with them unless we have huge investment and a sustained period of growth. Liverpool and Man Utd. are just huge clubs and Arsenal and Spurs have both had long periods of that sustained growth. So that’s 6 clubs that are currently miles ahead of us.
I’ve slated Ashley plenty of times but my points hardly register considering the absolute vitriol that comes from some people on here.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM
Comment #111daztoon
I’d love to see Shearer manage another club for a couple of seasons, I really would. But I don’t want to see him manager our club until he has earned his managerial stripes.
You can’t slag off Dogleash for not having passion because he was a Liverpool man! That means you’re dismissing every potential manager unless he is a Geordie or has previously played for the club!
Dogleash won with Liverpool because they had an amazing squad, he won with Blackburn because they had loads of cash. He’s not a terrible manager but he’s not a good one. And time has passed him by too, he should never have been appointed at Liverpool again.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #112Did you get that Toonking give Shearer a couple of seasons as a manager then give an opinion.Not on eight games.
TDS
How can you say KK methods won`t work you don`t even know how he would have a team set out.Like you and I he will have watched a lot of games too and will probably know how to set up the bunch of players we have at the club,better than anyone of us.
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Comment #113TDS
I like to think I am open to discussion and if somebody really doesn’t agree with me and we are both banging our heads against a wall i’ll just try and walk away. I know you can’t change people’s opinions all the time as I don’t change mine everytime.
I think what some fail to see is that point you make on wolves, leeds, pompey, etc. Some see it as we should be grateful to be in the prem league, which to some extent i agree with, but what I think you mean (correct me if i’m wrong) is not that we should praise ashley for not ruining us like those but that he could have done things a lot worse. Although we want better that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate what we do have.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Comment #114toonking
Once again ffs try reading i never said he slagged him off for being manager it was about Shearer having his say on the club keep up man
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:29 PM
Comment #115daztoon
I’m damn sure he’d be a better manager than either of us, but he wouldn’t really be competing with you and I for a job now would he?
It is my opinion that KK’s methods are past it and I think his performances for England and City back that up along with the fact that nobody else went in for him after City or after us. Try asking fans of other clubs if they would like KK to manage them.
ballerfan2
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Comment #116What an entertaining thread and a perfect example of the personality of NUFC. Everyone has an opinion on everything and all are right – or wrong (as I’ve said before, it appears that all of our players have been the best and worst players on our books according to various people on this blog). Anyone who disagrees with anyone else is insulted for their opinion. TDS – you have got some time on your hands and decided to have fun with this thread. Am I right? If I am then you have hooked a goodly number for your trouble. Incidentally, in the main – 85%? maybe – I agree with your initial statement TDS. And if anyone wishes to question my allegiance to Newcastle United, I have been a supporter for over 55 years, am able to spell correctly the names of all the players to play or have played for the Mags, so I don’t I don’t need anyone to tell me I am an idiot, I already know it.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Comment #117TS
Yes, pretty much. I don’t think Ashley deserves much praise for supporting the club when it got relegated because I think he had to take a large amount of the blame for us getting relegated in the first place and it was in his interest for us to get back to the PL anyway.
But an owner who didn’t have that interest or didn’t have the money could have just stripped the club to pay the wages and/or run up loads of debt and we could have drifted like one of those other clubs.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Comment #118TS 106
well put.
we have a big support but who else is their to support. other teams could build a bigger stadium if they wanted. the premier league is itself divided into 2 leagues really top 5.5 (Liverpool replaced by city)
then you have a race with the rest the reason it is so exciting is this league has got 5 teams who can compete for the title when most leagues only have 2.
but from 7th-20th it is anyones game stoke Swansea west ham came up recently but finished very high.
solano
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Comment #119TDS…yes, I saw it with some interest. Thanks.
I do feel you are a bit out of touch with the reality as it is in the city.
What Time4Change will have to fight is not your minority opinion but the insidious apathy which has gripped most NUFC fans in the last few years.
Ambition and action breeds progress in all walks of life and sit at home ‘do nothings’ or worse still, cynical snipers, encourage the continuation of an unacceptable status quo.
I hope those who spout off about change actually commit to it and get actively involved not only to see this regime leave but to shape the future – when Ashley has gone – by engaging with new prospective investors/owners
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Comment #120ToonDarnSarf
Like i said that`s just your opinion and yours alone.You have absolutely no idea what system or who would be picked by KK so you can`t say his methods would be out dated.He took over from a modern day manager Big Sam and was turning the team around playing better football.
Keegan wasn`t a manager before he took on the role at the Toon but it was like a duck to water. So to say he couldn`t adapt to the modern day is ludicrous he learnt his trade very quicky and saved the club.
I agree Shearer should not have been made manager at least for the eight games yet another stupid choice by the FAT MAN